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Study of the Response to Irradiation on Prostatic Explants ex Vivo, as a Predictive Factor of the Clinical Response to Irradiation of Prostate Cancers

Not Applicable
Conditions
Prostate Cancer
Registration Number
NCT03961737
Lead Sponsor
Institut Cancerologie de l'Ouest
Brief Summary

Of the 50,000 prostate cancers that occur each year in France, more than half will benefit from curative radiotherapy, alone or in combination with hormone therapy from 6 months to 3 years depending on the stage of the disease. At present, there are few ways to predict the response to this irradiation.

Evaluating the early response of tumor tissue to irradiation could predict the final response to treatment. It is difficult to offer biopsies during treatment for reasons of patient comfort. This is why this study consists in analysing transcriptomic and protein responses (immunohistochemistry) to irradiation on ex vivo prostate explants. These explants will be irradiated after culture and the transcriptional and immunohistochemical changes analysed before and after irradiation to determine an early tumor tissue response profile to irradiation.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
Male
Target Recruitment
92
Inclusion Criteria
  1. ≥ 18 years old

  2. Patient with non-operated prostate adenocarcinoma for whom radiotherapy treatment is scheduled

  3. Signed Informed Consent

  4. No contraindications to biopsy performance:

    • No anticoagulant treatment in progress
    • Absence of infection during diagnostic biopsies
    • Absence of pain requiring level 2 analgesics during diagnostic biopsies
    • Absence of bleeding complications during diagnostic biopsies
    • Absence of anal stenosis
  5. Normal coagulation examination :

    • Prothrombin Ratio between 80 and 100%.
    • Active Cephalin Time from 24 to 41 seconds, > 1.5 times that of the indicator
    • Platelets > 150,000 G/L
    • International Normalised Ratio(INR) = 1 after stopping the anticoagulant
  6. No contraindication to MRI:

    • Ocular metallic foreign body
    • Pacemaker
    • Old mechanical heart valve
    • Ancient vascular clips on cranial aneurysms
Exclusion Criteria
  1. History of radical prostatectomy. A history of transurethral prostate resection is not a contraindication
  2. History of prostate infection
  3. Hemorrhagic complications in diagnostic biopsies
  4. Pain requiring level 2 analgesics in diagnostic biopsies
  5. Anticoagulant treatment in progress (aspirin will be stopped 1 week before biopsies are performed)
  6. Abnormal coagulation assessment
  7. Anal stenosis
  8. Contraindications to radiotherapy: chronic inflammatory bowel disease, scleroderma
  9. Protected or tutored patient
  10. Patient whose follow-up at two years is not possible

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
biopsy tumor response24 months after radiotherapy

The centralized anatomopathological study of prostate biopsies will classify patients into good responders (absence of viable tumour cells) and poor responders (persistence of viable tumour cells).

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
prostatic Magnetic Resonance Imaging24 months after radiotherapy

Prostate MRI 2 years after the end of radiotherapy, used to identify the area affected by the tumor

Change in Biochemical response to radiotherapy.every 6 months for a maximum total of 24 months

Biological response to radiotherapy the biological response to radiotherapy is assessed by measuring serum PSA levels according to Phoenix criteria, nadir 2 ng/ml

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

ICO

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Saint-Herblain, France

ICO
🇫🇷Saint-Herblain, France
STEPHANE SUPIOT, MD
Contact
+33240679900
stephane.supiot@ico.unicancer.fr
Stéphane SUPIOT, MD
Principal Investigator

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